Stocking-protector.



No. 874,880. PATENTBD 1380.24, 1807. G. v. WALLACE.

STUCKING PROTECTOR. APPLICATION Hum JUAY 10,1807.

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-UNITED STATES PATENT; oEErcE.

GEORGE V. WALLACE, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETT AND BIRD, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCKING-PROTECTOR.

No. s 74,8eo.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Y Patented Dec. 24,1907.

Application filed July l0, 1907. Serial No. 383,006.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. WALLACE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the town of l/Vakefield, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Stocking-Protector, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a convenient and handy means, implement, or device suitable for use to cover the stocking during the dressing or blacking of a persons shoe, boot, or other such like foot-coverin,7 and thereby to shield and protect the stoc (ing against being defaced or soiled, 1 5 either as the dressing or blacking is being applied, or as it is being rubbedwith a brush, cloth, or other means to )reduce the polish or other finish desired, it eing of course understood that the blacking or dressing is done when the foot-covering is on a persons foot.

For the purpose stated, this invention consists of a device or implement composed of a band of thin and flexible, as also, preferably, more or less resilient sheet material, such as Celluloid, hard vulcanized india rubber, inetal,`e`tc., which is in three distinct sectioiilsparts, to wit,-a central and two end-parts,-and has an end of each of its end-parts overlapping and pivoted to the central-part at one of its ends, and the other or opposite end of each end-part free and unconnected, and also has its Said several parts of such relative lengths and widths that, when the device is applied for the purpose stated at and within the shoe or boot at the upper edge thereof, the .central-part will then cover the front and an adjacent portion i of. each of the o posite sides of the leo of the wearer, and tlie two end-parts, together, or in coperation, will cover the balance of the leg and overlap at the back thereof, and all otherwise as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1, is a perspective view of a low-cut shoe of any ordinary and well known kind, and showing 1n perspective the device or stocking-protector of this invention as inserted and placed therewithin. Fig. 2 is a face view of said stockingprotector removed from the shoe of Fig. 1, with its said several parts distended for their full length.

In the drawings, A indicates the stockingprotector considered as one whole. This protector, in all of its arts or sections B, C and D, is to be made of) a thin and flexible sheet material, such as Celluloid, metal, hard vulcanized india rubber, leather, or cloth, etc., but, preferably, a sheet material is to be usedwhic 1 is also resilient, as for instance, eelluloid, metal or hard vulcanized india rubber, although this invention is not to be limited in this regard, it being intended to use any sheet material which will best serve the purpose of this invention.

B and D are the two end-sections or parts and C is the central-section or part. The central-section C, at each, of its ends, and in each instance, is overlapped by an end of one of the end-sections B and D, as shown at E, and each of these so overlapping ends-the other or opposite ends bein free or disconnected-is secured to the portlon of the central-part, which it overlaps, by a riveted or headed swivel-pin or pivot F, which passes through their combined thickness and otherwise both pivots are so applied as to leave the end and central-sections free to be swung, with more or less freedom, as may be deemed desirable, on each other, all so that the end and centralsections can be adjusted 8o or placed either in a continuous v.coincident line or direction, or in lines or udirections, more or less at an acute or an obtuse angle to each other, according as may be found best for the device to serve the purpose of its use as herein before stated.

J and K are the free ends of the end-parts B and D, respectively, and, preferably, they are rounding as also are their attached and pivoted ends. Further they are tapered from their said attached ends to their said free ends. The central-part C, preferably, is also rounded off, at its opposite ends, and between its two ends, preferably, its u per and lower edges M and N, respectively fiom end to end, are concave, see Fig. 2. Y

The shape of the end and central-parts B, D and C, as described and shown, secure better conformity of the stocking-protector to son when inserted in the shoe (see Fig. 1) to protect the stocking of the personfroin being defaced or soiled as the shoe is being blacked, polished, or otherwise treated to surface it as may be desired.

ln using the protectordescribed the central-part C, covers and protects the front and a portion of each side of the leg .adjacent thereto and the balance of the leg is covered S, ASSIGNOR TO BARCLAY', BROWNI INCORPORATED, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF the curvatures of the foot and leg of the perand protected by the two end-parts B and D which, -by their free ends, overlap at the back of the le It is ovious that the protector described is capable of use for varying sizes of foot wear but it is desirable in all cases of its use that the free ends of the end-parts should overlap as stated.

It will be observed that it is most preferable to make the protector described of a material which can be readily washed or otherwise cleansed, from time to time, without in- 'ury thereto, as for instance,l of Celluloid or ard vulcanized india rubber.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking-protector, consisting of two end-parts or sections and a central-part or section, severally of flexible sheet material and having each of the two end-parts, at one end, pivoted to one end ofthe central-part, and the opposite end of each free and unconnected so as to overlap each other, substantially as 'de- Ascribed, and for the use specied.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking-protector, consisting of 'two end-parts or sections, and a central-part or section, severally of flexible sheet material and having each of the two end-parts, at one end, ivot- Aed to one end ofthe central-part, and t e op- GEORGE V. WALLACE.

Witnesses A. G'. DEsMoND, F. W. PIERCE.l 

